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The Pew Research Center provides lots of useful information in two recent reports. One of these, released on April 25, shows that the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. remains around the …
Protecting the rights of the most vulnerable workers is about to get significantly harder—and that’s bad for all workers. By Terri Gerstein, The Nation April 24, 2017 Alexander Acosta seems well on …
Photo: David Bacon The Trump administration’s proposed budget includes $999 million for 62 miles of the president’s promised border wall. But Republicans legislators, facing opposition from Democrats…
Srinivas Kuchibhotla , murdered H-1B worker Trump opposes the use of guest workers “as cheap labor”—except for his own use of guest workers as cheap labor. This article is a good exposé of Trump’s hy…
By David L. Wilson, MR Online March 2, 2017 The national sweeps by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the second week of February drew a great deal of media attention. Some of the c…
The New York Times editorial for the paper’s February 26 edition (see below) made several telling points about enforcement measures targeting undocumented immigrants: the policy was absurdly ex…
How American immigration policy has fueled an unlikely industry in El Salvador. By Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker January 23, 2017 Eddie Anzora was sitting in his cubicle at a call center in El Salvado…
El Salvador’s call-center industry is profiting off US deportees. by Hilary Goodfriend, Jacobin December 16, 2016 I had chosen a Mr. Donut café in San Salvador to meet Raúl. An agent in El Salvador’s…
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress April 1, 2016 Some of the farmworkers who make it possible for U.S. consumers to have berries for breakfast are paid about $6 a day. Those farmworkers include chil…
By Tom Jawetz, Center for American Progress March 28, 2016 On April 18, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit, United States v. Texas, brought by more than two dozen state…
By David L. Wilson, Truthout March 15, 2016 There are two surprising facts that most mainstream US media outlets have studiously ignored in their coverage of immigration and the 2016 presidential cam…
PRESS RELEASE February 25, 2016 Contact: Michelle Mittelstadt 202-266-1910 mmittelstadt@migrationpolicy.org Report: More than 10 Million People Live in Households with Potential DAPA Recipients WASHI…
Stop Union Busting at Brod Kitchen Thu, Jan 28, 2016, 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm The owners of Bröd Kitchen (formerly Hot & Crusty) on Manhattan’s Upper East Side announced a sudden and immediate shut …
By Michael Corkery and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times December 23, 2015 Nearly a year ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed that a new municipal identification card would help thousands of N…
By John Burnett, NPR November 13, 2015 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been under fire for opening three detention centers to hold Central American immigrant families who fled to this co…
In a report released on Tuesday, Oxfam America is launching a new campaign to address what it says are rampant health and safety issues, as well as low pay and few benefits, that face the people who …
The Toys “R” Us employees in New Jersey, many of whom had been at the company more than a decade, were laid off. By Julia Preston, New York Times September 29, 2015 WAYNE, N.J. — When Congress design…
If immigration is a problem, it's because US policies have made it one. For someone like Bernie Sanders, there should be no difficulty finding a solution. By Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson, Trut…
